About

As part of the EPFL Media x Design Lab, Nathaniel Zuelzke has taught computational techniques for architectural production, investigating a variety of scales and agendas from digitally-fabricated furniture to urban farming strategies in Beijing. Collaborating with the smart environment and interactive architecture firm Convergeo, he has designed and detailed buildings as sustainable interfaces between people and technology. He is particularly interested in the innovation of design practice and the rigorous exploration of built form as facilitated by considered integration of new technologies and methodologies.

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Employment

Developed an interactive geometric solver for the planar concrete roof structure and produced all bid documents for the 600m2 Maison des Vignes in Luins. Produced construction documents and collaborated with the client and contracting team during construction administration of the Swissnex Consulate addition in Cambridge. Fabricated prototypes of intelligent game pieces for an interactive table. Designed and implemented the Convergeo website.

Education

Wrote Digital model-making and the encoding of design intent, theorizing the role of feedback in the iterative creation of digital architectural models and its impact on authorial ambitions. Participated in the SUPERSTUDIO research team, investigating and rethinking the design studio as a paradigm for decentralized, interdisciplinary collaboration. Co-wrote and -presented Computation as an ideological practice, comparing computational workflows with conventional ones. Co-presented Design machines: clever, calculating models for architecture in the inaugural edition of the Creative mornings: Geneva lecture series.

Produced the design thesis Structurescape: a case for adaptable reuse, proposing a reconfigurable structural landscape as an alternative genre of use and reuse for a World’s Fair pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain. Designed the layout and co-edited the studio publication Dance space: choreographing a mobile theatre, documenting collaboration between the GSD and das Institut für Leichtbau Entwerfen und Konstruieren (ILEK). Contributed to the research, design, production, and installation of Beyond the Harvard Box, a retrospective exhibition of work by postwar GSD graduates. Produced measured architectural drawings at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Greece.

Graduated summa cum laude. Distinguished as the SARUP undergraduate with the highest cumulative grade point average. Awarded the Elmer Johnson Memorial Scholarship, presented to an undergraduate architecture student demonstrating exceptional design ability. Received first and second prizes in the UWM Student Design Awards.